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26 June 2025

Mortgage rates trucking along as is for now

It's all looking pretty quiet on the interest rates front at the moment. While shorter-term rates are expected to fall a little fu...

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12 June 2025

Competition keeping mortgage rates in check, despite rise in wholesale rates

Wholesale rates have gone up slightly in the wake of our latest 0.25% OCR cut, raising concerns that mortgage rates may follow sui...

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29 May 2025

Another OCR cut in the bag—and we're almost at the bottom of the rate cycle

The Reserve Bank dropped the OCR by a further 0.25% this week, down to 3.25%—meaning we're now within reaching distance of the bot...

13 January 2022

Interest rate rises to continue this year

Welcome to my first fortnightly column on mortgage rate levels and prospects in New Zealand. At the start of 2022 we can see that all fixed interest rates have in fact risen quite firmly.

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26 August 2021

Rate rises delayed but with upside risk

Borrowers could reasonably expect higher rates at their peaks, but not necessarily a faster speed of increase. Our central bank has an established long-term record of too often tightening monetary policy too slowly.

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25 February 2021

OCR remains unchanged, RBNZ to keep monetary policy steady

There's no reason for strongly believing that we face a future of sustained high inflation which will require an interest rate crunch. But borrowers should pay attention to the upside risks and the extreme uncertainty regarding how far and fast rates rise.

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11 November 2020

Why interest rates will remain low for a few years - Tony Alexander

Banks lend out about $280 billion to households for housing purchases. But they have funding from households exactly equal to $200 billion. It might pay to stop and think about that number for a moment.

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